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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

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Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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